May 2023 Readings

Now Is the Month of Maying – Thomas Morley
https://genius.com/Kings-singers-now-is-the-month-of-maying-lyrics 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – From the Bible, New International Version
https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/1COR+13.html

The Third Body – Robert Bly
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/robert-bly-third-body.html

The Dark Night (excerpt) – St. John of the Cross (English version by Robert Bly)
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2010/11/dark-night.html

The Boat (aka The Guest Is Inside You) – Kabir (English version by Robert Bly)
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/K/Kabir/Guestisinsid/index.html

Inside This Clay Jug – Kabir (translation by Robert Bly with amended translations by Osho)
https://intrinsicheart.com/inside-this-clay-jug/

Footprints in the Sand – Carolyn Joyce Carty
https://medium.com/illumination/footprints-in-the-sand-6c5cf86aa355

What Hurts the Soul? – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
https://enlightenedrumi.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/what-hurts-the-soul-by-rumi/
(The specific Coleman Barks translation read at the May 2023 Spiritual Poetry Meetup International, from the collection The Soul of Rumi, doesn’t seem to be available online, but this link includes most of what was read.)

Hear the Voice of the Bard! – William Blake (from Songs of Experience)
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/B/BlakeWilliam/Hearvoiceof/index.html

This Life’s Dim Windows of the Soul – William Blake
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/122698-this-life-s-dim-windows-of-the-soul-distorts-the-heavens

Do Not Sink Into Sadness – Hafez  (translated by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn)
https://intrinsicheart.com/building-your-ship/

I Am Learning to See – Quote from Rainer Maria Rilke
https://rilkepoetry.com/quotations/life/   (scroll down to the 8^th quote)

Photo courtesy “How to Navigate Using the Sun” https://www.naturalnavigator.com/find-your-way-using/sun/